Managing Streams

This topic describes how to work with streams.

Required IAM Policy

To use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you must be given the required type of access in a An IAM document that specifies who has what type of access to your resources. It is used in different ways: to mean an individual statement written in the policy language; to mean a collection of statements in a single, named "policy" document (which has an Oracle Cloud ID (OCID) assigned to it); and to mean the overall body of policies your organization uses to control access to resources. written by an administrator, whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool. If you try to perform an action and get a message that you don’t have permission or are unauthorized, confirm with your administrator the type of access you've been granted and which A collection of related resources that can be accessed only by certain groups that have been given permission by an administrator in your organization. you should work in.

Stream Name: Required. Specify a friendly name for the topic. It does not have to be unique, but it cannot be changed. Avoid entering confidential information.

In the Stream Settings panel:

Retention (in Hours): Enter the number of hours (from 24 to 168) to retain messages. The default value is 24.

Number of Partitions: Enter the number of partitions for the stream. The maximum number is based on the limits for your tenancy.

You can optionally configure the stream settings based on estimated capacity. To do this, click on the Configure stream settings based on estimated capacity link to reveal the Capacity Estimates panel.

Fill out the capacity estimates and then click the Estimate Stream Size button. This will automatically populate the Number of partitions field.

Tags: Optionally, you can apply tags. If you have permissions to create a resource, you also have permissions to apply free-form tags to that resource. To apply a defined tag, you must have permissions to use the tag namespace. For more information about tagging, see Resource Tags. If you are not sure if you should apply tags, skip this option (you can apply tags later) or ask your administrator.